A new general distance measure for quantization of LSF and their transformed coefficients

In this paper, we have developed a new general distance measure that not only can be used in a vector quantization (VQ) of the line spectrum frequency (LSF) parameters but performs well in the LSF transformed domain. The new distance is based on the spectral sensitivity of LSF and their transformed coefficients. In addition, the fix scaling factor is used to decrease the sensitivity of spectral error at higher frequencies. Experimental results have shown that the proposed distance measure leads to as good as or better performance of VQ compared to other methods in the field of LSF coding. The use of this distance as the weighting function of the LSF's transformed parameters is also suggested.